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Media Messages and Womens' Body Perceptions in Egypt

This study explores the association between media exposure and women’s body perceptions in Egypt. The thin ideal perpetuated through the media, eating disorders and body dissatisfaction and drive for thinness were thought to be a culturally linked phenomena confined to Western societies. This study has contributed to the debate on cultural determinism of eating disorders and body dissatisfaction in women as it has shown that these concepts are on the rise in non-Western societies in general and Egypt in specific. When exposed to media messages, women in Egypt demonstrated eating disordered attitudes, body dissatisfaction feelings and also chose other compensatory behaviors such as veiling, fasting, and following diet.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:GEORGIA/oai:digitalarchive.gsu.edu:communication_theses-1029
Date21 January 2007
CreatorsRagab, Shaima
PublisherDigital Archive @ GSU
Source SetsGeorgia State University
Detected LanguageEnglish
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Formatapplication/pdf
SourceCommunication Theses

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